Belles lettres

New Haven, CT & New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Collection of letters from the author of classics like "Brideshead Revisited." A near fine copy in an about very good price clipped dust jacket that has some edge wear and rubbing. Item #131872 More

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 356 pages. Introduction by Quentin Bell. Edited by Anne Olivier Bell. A tight near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some very slight wear. Item #142553 More

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1988. First edition. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Anthology of Berryman's letters to his mother edited by Richard J. Kelly. A close to near fine copy in blue printed wrappers with some bumping to the corners. Item #157955 More

London: Nattali & Maurice, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 150 pages. A collection of letters by Thomas Bewick to J.F.M. Dovaston edited by Gordon Williams. Introduction by Montague Weekley. Also includes several illustrations by Bewick as well. A very good copy with some slight bumping to the corners and a small gift inscription to the front free endpaper. No dust jacket. Item #149073 More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. First edition. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. A look at the long relationshp between Bishop and the New Yorker. A tight near fine copy in wrappers with a small crease to the top corner of the rear wrapper. Uncommon in this format. Item #115616 More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A collection of Elizabeth Bishop's letters selected and edited by Robert Giroux. A fine and tight copy in a fine dust jacket. Item #117266 More

Maidson, WI: Quixote, 1968. First edition. Softcover. A collection of letters from Blazek to Cauble, Pete Larouche, Willie, and Brown Miller. Also includes several black and white images. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Item #137560 More

Maidson, WI: Quixote, 1968. First edition. Softcover. First issue. A collection of letters from Blazek to Cauble, Pete Larouche, Willie, and Brown Miller. Also includes several black and white images. A close to near fine copy in spiral bound wrappers and printed only on rectos but with the covers slightly darkened. Much less common than the stapled wrappers issue. Item #137561 More

Bloomington, IN and London: Indiana University Press, 1966. Softcover. 225 pages. Includes letters by Warner and a number of black and white illustrations. A very good copy in wrappers with some wear but internally a clean copy. Uncommon. Item #156094 More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Translated by Justin O'Brien. A posthumous collection of letters from the author of "The Plague" and "The Stranger." A clean very near fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket with some small chips to the top of the spine and some slight soiling and minor edge wear. Still, a very nice copy. Item #116649 More

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Turnstone Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 432 pages. A book of letters from the Governor General's Award winner for "Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal." A fine copy in a very near fine price clipped dust jacket. Signed by Connelly on the title page. Item #128309 More

Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. A collection of conversations with the important author of "Blue Juanita" and the classic "Exile's Return." A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Item #107673 More

Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 48 pages. Edited by R.W. Franklin. A scholarly examination and reproduction of three letters by Dickinson written between 1858-61. A close to near fine copy in cloth boards and with a laid in envelope with facsimiles of the letters. There is some light foxing to the page edges. No dust jacket. Seemingly very uncommon in the cloth issue. Item #157303 More

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1976. First edition. As opposed to the leather binding this copy is in a beige cloth binding with the words Record and Reference Copy on the spine and front board. A very good copy with a small (no larger than a half inch circumference) moisture stain at the bottom of the first 222 pages but otherwise a clean copy. The only reference I can find is in Serendipity Books Carl Petersen Collection catalog with it being A67.3b and in 1991 it was $900 for a fine copy. Very scarce. Item #108412 More

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 420 pages. A wide ranging collection of letters from Dylan Thomas selected by Fitzgibbon. A tight close to near fine copy with some bumping to the bottom corners in a near fine dust jacket with the same bumping. A bright and clean copy. Item #152202 More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1972. First editions. Hardcovers. 787 pages in two volumes. A collection of this important British artist and critic's letters edited and with an introduction by Denys Sutton. Both books are in near fine condition and each dust jacket is price clipped and each has a number of edge tears and some minor edge wear. Still, a very nice set. This set is heavier than the typical item and may require extra shipping. Item #125348 More

New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1948. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. 480 pages. A collection of Eric Gill's letters edited by Walter Shewring. A tight near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some minor wear. Item #144557 More

Garden, City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1964. First edition. Softcover. Tall galley style proofs. An about very good copy in wrappers with some edge wear, a number of tears and publisher information sheet affixed to the front panel and a tape shadow to the rear panel. Scarce in this format. Item #134888 More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. A comprehensive collection of letters from Jarrell. Edited by his second wife Mary Jarrell. A very near fine copy in fine dust jacket. Item #105124 More

np: Roxburghe Zamorano Club, 1980. First edition. Softcover. Printed in an edition of 250 copies. Single sheet folded once to create 4 pages. Includes the letter by Jeffers along with a black and white photograph by Horace Lyons and a linoleum cut by Peggy Conahan. A near fine copy. Item #134413 More